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First game you played after you finished your cabinet?
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iwillfearnoevil:
wizard of wor, although my cab is not exactly done
RTSDaddy2:
Donkey Kong - and it was almost a religious experience. I'd forgotten what it was like to push a REAL button and make Mario hop over those barrels.

That was before trackball arrived...first trackball game I played was Centipede...and of course a round of Tempest once the Tornado Spinner was installed also!!

Bill Mote:

--- Quote from: RTSDaddy2 on July 26, 2005, 03:06:04 pm ---Donkey Kong - and it was almost a religious experience.
--- End quote ---

I keep telling myself that I built this cabinet for my kids as a Christmas present.  They do love it.  In fact, it's the only present they're still playing with.  I can honestly say that I love it as much or more than they do.  I grew up dropping quarters into machines like a mad-man.

There was a real sweat spot in arcade gaming in the mid-80's.  Personal opinion; the birth of the fighting games really killed the arcades.  --> keep reading before you flame!  They're good games and a lot of fan-boys love them.  The problem was in the complexity of the games.  They removed all the instant gratification achieved by "classic" games.  Anyone from 5 - 55 could drop a quarter and play Donkey Kong, but games like Mortal Kombat required much more knowledge about the controls.  The audience for those games was much smaller and as a result we no longer have the big arcades of yester-year.

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DARRYLICSHON:
my frist was space duels , then i played missile command
 for a few hours , but ofcourse i had to change the control panel
toolaa:
I just had to have a Tempest Spinner and researched every spinner option before settling on the V2.
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